“No Man’s Sky is so big, the developers built space probes to explore it for them.” That’s from a Polygon report on what is probably the most hyped videogame of the moment. The main thing that seems to fascinate people about No Man’s Sky is its extensive use of procedural content generation (PCG). Put simply, […]
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Week 311
The big thing this week was the start of a new sprint on Free Birds. Niels and Tim joined us again for copy and art respectively, while Alper donned his developer hat, and I switched between my producer, agile coach, and designer roles. There’s a lot to do, as usual, but we’ve made good progress. […]